Gajah

antagenaiz · Post time 15-4-2013 11:29 AM

Elle_mujigae posted on 15-4-2013 09:58 AM
Haha tu la i pun bagi jawapan based on that thread...
Motip still tak puas hati....
antagenaiz.. ...

tak bleh buka kat opis...

tgu balik umah la..
ada bidio tak..kalu takde bidio wa tak caye...

Elle_mujigae · Post time 15-4-2013 12:00 PM

antagenaiz posted on 15-4-2013 11:29 AM
tak bleh buka kat opis...
tgu balik umah la..
ada bidio tak..kalu takde bidio wa tak caye... ...

A Jumping Millipede

M. E. G. EVANS & J. G. BLOWER

Department of Zoology, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL

MOST zoologists would consider a jumping Diplopod to be a highly unlikely animal. Whilst one of us (J. G. B.) was in Sierra Leone recently, however, he collected some millipedes which can perform a succession of four or five short hops. The millipedes belong to the sub-order Stemmiuloidea. The genus represented in Sierra Leone is Diopsiulus Silvestri, of which there are several species, all superficially similar, which all have this characteristic jumping behaviour. Cook1, writing on neotropical species belonging to the sub-order, reported that the animals “frequently throw themselves several inches when disturbed”, and wrote that the collector of a species in Ceylon (D. ceylonicus) reported to Pocock that the animals were saltatory. Cook wrote that the “apparent jumping motion is caused by vigorous wriggling of the body”.

References
1.
Cook, O. F., Am. Nat., 29, 1111 (1895).
2.
Manton, S. M., J. Linn. Soc. (Zool.), 42, 299 (1954).
3.
Manton, S. M., J. Linn. Soc. (Zool.), 43, 487 (1958).